cobweb and lace weight silk yarns

Spun by Loro Piana of Italy and other great spinners, the cobweb weight yarns are gorgeously smooth and, well, silky, with beautiful pale pastel and stronger colors.

We will happily wind multiple strands on cone for you (you still only buy the cones you want, ie you CAN have three plies to make up a fingering weight on one cone). Note that if you pay for twisting ($5 per cone) in the twisting options section we can also twist up thicker yarns, and some can be done in two stages (eg 3plies twisted together one way, 2 plies of that the other way) to greatly reduce the amount of twist left in the resulting thick yarn.

3/44NM filament (organza) silk lace wt citron (Box 118)

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most of our silks are staple spun but this is made with silk filaments, so is very silky, and slippery!

Length: 2400 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $22.00

3/44NM filament (organza) silk lace wt satsuma (Box 118)

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most of our silks are staple spun but this is made with silk filaments, so is very silky, and slippery!

Length: 2400 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $22.00

1/20NM noil silk cobweb wt box 113, it34 marrone

this IS a single yarn, with a bit of residual twist, so we will twist it up to balanced thicker yarns for free if required..

Length: 3300 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $20.00

1/20NM noil silk cobweb wt box 113, marrone 5

this IS a single yarn, with a bit of residual twist, so we will twist it up to balanced thicker yarns for free if required..

Length: 3300 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $20.00

1/12.5NM noil silk lace wt box 214, black

this IS a single yarn, with a bit of residual twist, so we will twist it up to balanced thicker yarns for free if required..

Length: 2000 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $20.00

2/20NM heavy lace weight noil silk donkey/black (box 113)

Length: 1650 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $18.00

2/24 lace weight silk yarn verza (box 360)

Length: 1950 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $22.00

1/15NM lace weight tussah silk multicolore d604 (dark blue) (box 113)

this is a tussah silk single yarn, marketed under the shantung jaspe label by filatti burratti... as a single yarn it is twisty but we will twist it up to roughly balanced thicker yarns for free..

Length: 2450 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $18.00

1/30NM cobweb weight singles noil silk 6862 dark blue (box 113)

these Italian silks are the best quality fine nubby stuff.. they are labelled Tussah Noils... we will twist them up into thicker more balanced yarns for free if you wish..

Length: 4900 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $18.00

1/20 fine lace weight singles lana bourette multicol 5 (box 113)

these noil silks are produced by Filatti Buratti, branded noil nubby... some lovely colors

Length: 3300 Yards.
Net Weight: 150 Grams

Item Price incl postage $18.00

The 3/50NM balanced yarns give 2,750 yards per cone or 8,300 yards/lb, which is about 15% finer than our normal 2/28Nm lace weights. The 2/50NM cobweb weight yarns give 4,100 yards per cone and 12,500 yards per lb (which is pretty fine yarn...) and the 2/60s give 5,000 yards per cone and 15,000 ypp (which is a bit finer still)... and the 2/120s is even finer... nearly 10,000 yards per cone and 30,000 ypp..

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